Have you heard about the Jury Duty Scam for Identity Theft?

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Subject: Jury Duty Scam to get your SS# & DOB

JURY DUTY SCAM: This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below). Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book. It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call. Most of us take summons for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their
civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of scam has surfaced. The caller claims to be a jury coordinator. If you protest that you never received a summons for jury duty, the scammer asks you for your Social Security number and date of birth so he or she can verify the information and cancel the arrest warrant. Give out any of this information and bingo; your
identity just got stolen. The scam has been reported so far in 11 states, including Oklahoma, Illinois, and Colorado.

SEE ADDITIONAL DETAILS.

This (scam) is particularly insidious because they use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into giving information by pretending they're with the court system. The FBI and the federal court system have issued nationwide alerts on their web sites, warning consumers about the fraud.
Check it out here:
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm
or here:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp

Please pass the word on this one …

Answer 1

Thanks for the info I will make sure I foreword it to everyone on my list.

Answer 2

I would be very concerned. CNN amongst almost every news publication paper and tv station have done reports on ID Theft. They say 1 out of 4 people will be a victim and getting worse every month.

Here is the bad news:

1. Per reports, it does not involve just your credit anymore, they are taking your info and using it to get a Drivers Lic in your name and commit crimes (people have actually got arrested and had to prove they did not commit the crime in other states, cities, or countries)
2. They take it and file medical claims which has resulted in people losing their health insurance and unable to get new health insurance because of the severity of the claims that were placed under their name
3. Job history - anything they do can be a negative impact on any job you try to get or school you want to attend
4. the list goes on and on
5. ON a recent CNN Interview of a criminal who steals identities, the theif said he would do it again and again. They make a lot of money, and only 5% are ever caught. So the risk was low, and the reward very high compaired to other crimes
6. ID Theft criminals usually only receive a slap on the hand. Why? because the jails/prisons are over crowded and only want people who commit hard crimes, ID theft is considered a small crime because no one is ever physically hurt. It is usually always committed over the internet.

This is just some of the facts, I would highly suggest enrolling into a program that does not cost a lot considering what it does for you. If your identity is stolen, they will do almost all the work for you to restore it. (If you did this yourself they say an average person spends 600 hours of time and 2500.00 in their own money to get everything fixed)

Check out http://www.dontgowithoutit.com

The company who provides this sends you a monthly email to let you know what is going on with your identity. They also send a yearly credit report and score, and tell you how to improve your credit. The company was the one the gov't brought in to unravel enron, and track down sadams finances just to name a few.

Answer 3

Leave a message, that's what message systems are for. May be another number to call on your summons. Also may be a web site or E-mail where you can contact appropriate official. Now SWAT is not gonna come rushing out to get you, neither are other cops, depending on where you are and what level of court you were summoned to. The Feds take it very seriously, the rest depend more on where you are. Less populated and/or low crime areas may pay more attention to it. Dallas County, Tx takes it seriously, regularly court bailiffs, constables, sheriffs deputies, and local police go out looking fo folks who ignored jury summons. If you don't contact them and make some arrangements, usually having your name added to next jury pool instead of waiting for it to pop up in normal way, a warrant for arrest will be issued. Like I said they won't send a posse out, but if you get pulled over for a traffic ticket, the warrant will appear, around here most traffic cops will arrest you, depending on their mood. Warrants may also appear on credit reports, job application searches, voter registration rolls,official county, state, local web sites, local news paper and other places. Don't blow it off, Contacting the proper authority will not get you in trouble, people miss jury duty all the time for non-excusable reasons, if they do something about it there is no penalty. If they ignore it some get away with it, for others it leads to problems.

Answer 4

I don't answer my phone unless I know who is calling anyways. And I have never given, nor would I EVER give out my social security # over the phone as I have no proof who is on the other end either. Just like at my business when companies call me trying to sell me a security alarm system....I have no proof it's a legitimate company or someone scamming to see if I actually HAVE a security system so they can break in after closing hours. But thanks for the info....I know others aren't that "brilliant." :-)

Answer 5

No, I haven't heard of this. Thanks. But if all it takes to steal your identity is a SS# and birth date, we are all at the mercy of everyone from a utility clerk to a title company secretary. I can't count the number of times I've had to give that information in the last year, everything from setting up an utility account to buying a house.

Answer 6

Yes, I did hear about this though it has been some time ago. You serve as a good reminder that we should never give out personal information to people over the telephone on calls we did not initiate.

Answer 7

This is over a year old.!!!!!

Why are you alarming folks with this now?

There is nothing current on the FBI website about this.

Are you simply blowing smoke or what???

Answer 8

yea there are many a holes in this world, i got an e mail recently
by some unknown basturd talking about problems with my bank
account and wanted to verify my bank information, i told him
to go screw himself.

Answer 9

Wow that's scary.

I got a jury summons for my dog once. lol